Example collocations logo

Abide in sentence

155 examples of Abide in a sentence

Eight hundred years ago, approximately, the barons of England decided that the Divine Right of Kings was no longer working for them so well, and they forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, which recognized that even the king who claimed to have divine rule still had to abide by a basic set of rules.
So it meant that if you were a scientist who wanted to work on the human genome, you had to agree to abide by these principles.
What matters is that people of different social backgrounds and different walks of life encounter one another, bump up against one another in the ordinary course of life, because this is what teaches us to negotiate and to abide our differences.
There are ties of fraternity that bond us together, and if we destroy these bonds by undermining the standards, the security, the manner of behavior, that nations and citizens all around the world expect us to abide by.
You know, when you live in a democracy, you live with this idea that your government will always protect you, as long as you abide by the laws.
And we've never faced such a massive amount of information which is not curated by those whose profession leads them to abide by the truth, to fact-check and to maintain a code of conduct and a code of professional ethics.
Now, I'm not naive enough to suggest you never use your computer at night, I know I wouldn't abide by that.
The main entrance should have a public plaza in front of it to abide by the zoning code, and so forth.
I can't abide this status quo.
The prime threat to any government's power resides in the male population, they're less likely to abide by authority and are more of a physical combat threat.
And of course, what the reviewers could not abide is it doesn't tell a simple narrative dick-and-jane tale like 99% of hollywood output.
However, in the end, he cannot abide by his selfish decision.
All of which Billy must abide by,and was forwarned.
I can't abide cheap, phony productions, and that is what we too often get in these American pieces.
In 1934, the major studios all agreed to abide by the dictates of a stronger Production Code--eliminating sex, nudity, cursing and "inappropriate" plots in films (these had actually been relatively common in films in the early 30s).
Takeshi Kitano: NO doubt a gifted cineaste but I just can't abide by the sheer brutality of this film.
However, if only we overlook the clichéd situation, that Rajesh was the one, to whom Asha was supposed to be getting married, and elopes for the love of Prem Chopra, who is a bad man in the story, as well as the train accident, The father-in -law, who hasn't seen the girl to whom his son was married before, and Asha entrapped in a situation, to abide by the oath that she would take care of that orphaned baby etc. and finally, the truth dawning on her, that it's Rajesh, whom she had wronged unwittingly, but loves him now deeply, the movie is a passé.
It is a new world with new rules and such for our monster to abide by.
Just because you are gay and watching a film about gay men and/or women does not mean you have to abide by some unwritten rule forcing you to say that it's good.
Barring some compelling need, the calculus might well arise that it is more important to abide by the constitution for some time – and to be seen to be abiding by it – than it is even to improve its provisions.
Most states nowadays lie within borders that are widely accepted as legitimate, and they increasingly abide by international norms of behavior in times of war.
In fact, the obligation of states to abide by humanitarian rules of conduct while their enemies are free to barbarize warfare is what makes asymmetric wars especially insoluble.
Not once, however, has the President suggested that these problems might be addressed through the UN human rights treaty system - a system through which Iraq has committed to abide by the very principles it is accused of violating.
For ordinary citizens to develop and abide by such moral codes, we need, at a minimum, better civic education, so that people understand the latent power they wield and so that users of digital platforms learn to check the sources of news stories they encounter.
Of course, that is not always an easy credo by which to abide.
None of this is to suggest that the US and Europe should abide every move by every corrupt dictator.
And, even if Palestinian negotiators agreed to end the conflict once and for all, the chances that all Palestinian factions would abide by such a settlement are nil.
Therefore, it must use all possible means to compel its members to abide by their international and European legal obligations.
The people had spoken, he said; he would abide by their wishes.
In exchange for a guarantee, the eurozone’s major banks would have to agree to abide by the ECB’s instructions.
Next